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Catalogue
Activity based learning resources for developing 21st Century Employability Skills
An overview of RSVP Design’s range of learning tools &
resources developed for use in Education
©RSVP DESIGN LTD MARCH 2019
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
Toolbox Colourblind®
Learning Focus Communication (Managing Information)
Achieving Common Meaning
Team Problem Solving
Chairing and Group Management
Class Size 8-32
Duration 20-40 minutes plus review
Contents Facilitator Manual, 20 x blindfolds
30 coloured components
Comments A classic communication skills activity, to
improve the skills of listening and speaking.
The emphasis is on using language
accurately and descriptively, and building in
a feedback process, to ensure shared
understanding.
Toolbox Colourblind® Plus
Learning Focus Communication
Achieving Common Meaning
Team Problem Solving
Chairing and Group Management
Class Size 8-32
Duration 10-40 minutes plus review
Contents Facilitator Manual, 20 x blindfolds
30 coloured components
Comments An extension of the principles behind the
original Colourblind® activity, this version
provides additional (simpler) paired and
small group communications activities, as
well as a more challenging version of the
original activity, process and learning focus
Toolbox expresspack
Learning Focus Ensuring Collective Understanding & Clarity
Management & Workplace Communications
Personal Development / Coaching
Class Size 6-32
Duration 20-60 minutes plus review
Contents 53 x playing card-sized image cards (88 x
63mm)
Comments
A carefully constructed set of images that
encourages self-expression and allows for
the fluent and coherent communication of
ideas. Suitable for developing more technical
language skills, as well as creative thinking
and writing skills.
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TEAMWORK SKILLS
Toolbox Learning² (Learning Squared)
Learning Focus Broken Squares: Working Collaboratively
Hollow Square: Instruction and Delegation
Class Size 6-32
Duration Broken Squares: 20 minutes plus review
Hollow Square: 30 minutes plus review
Contents Two separate activities with Facilitator
Manual, Plastic pieces and activity briefs
Comments Two exercises that explore working in teams.
One emphasizes trust, support and a
willingness to cooperate with others. The
second develops skills in briefing, delegation
and planning, in order to achieve a specific task
with a correct solution.
Toolbox Simbols
Learning Focus Communication (Managing Information)
Process Improvement
Team Planning and Organisation
Supervisory Leadership
Class Size 6-32
Duration 40-50 minutes plus review
Contents Facilitator Manual, Gameboard, Case
30 different magnetic tiles
Comments A complex, challenging, communication task
with a high-pressure deadline. Ideal for use
in a competitive situation, to challenge
teams to produce excellent performance.
Toolbox Team Work & Team Play Cards
Learning Focus Communication (Managing Information)
Team Development
Team Problem Solving
Creative Thinking
ClassSize 4-48
Duration 20 - 40 minutes plus review
Contents 52 large playing cards (20cm x 13cm) and 12
instruction cards
Comments With this deck of cards you can facilitate more
than 20 powerful team and community
building activities including debriefing tools,
ice-breaking questions, character building
activities & games
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CRITICAL THINKING & PROBLEM SOLVING SKILLS
Toolbox Counter Intelligence
Learning Focus Supervisory Leadership
Problem Solving
Communication
Class Size 6-32
Duration 15 minutes plus review
Contents 2 x sets of 32 x coloured counters and 32 x
instruction/task cards. Facilitator manual.
Comments A challenging group activity that allows
team members to use a range of
communication and logic skills. Encourages
critical thinking and the need to test and
prove a hypothesis. Explores attitudes to
rules and constraints.
Toolbox Narrow Margins
Narrow Learning Focus Information Management
Margins
Facilitator Notes Delegation of Responsibility
Strategic Decision-Making
Planning & Leading a Complex Team Activity
Class Size 6-32.
Duration Approximately 60 minutes plus review
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Contents Facilitator Manual, Project information sheets
4 x OS Map Extracts and Map Measurers
Comments A competitive small group activity in which
up to 4 teams must analyse a large volume
of information, then use it to create and cost
a workable strategy. A commercial proposal
is then prepared to present to a prospective
customer to win the tender.
Toolbox Workstations
Learning Focus I Introductory Team Building
Managing Information & Communication
Identifying Individual Learning Styles
Using Information to Solve Problems
Class Size 6-32
Duration 20 - 30 minutes plus review
Contents 1 x pack of playing cards with
full facilitation notes and questions
Comments An exercise in gathering and making sense
of large amounts of information. This
exercise requires skills that are highly
valuable in studying, creating personal
strategies for retaining information and
applying structured problem-solving
techniques.
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PERSONAL MANAGEMENT SKILLS
Toolbox Images of Organisations®
Learning Focus Management & Workplace Communications
Team Development
Personal or Team Development Planning
Class Size 6-32
Duration Approximately 30 minutes
Contents 48 high quality laminated images (3 x 16)
Full facilitation notes and questions
Comments A set of images based around metaphors for
living and working in teams and
organisations. The images provide an
opportunity to think about what you have
learned in the past, as well as what is
important to you now and in the future.
Toolbox Keypunch
Learning Focus Improving Task Efficiency
Problem Solving
Effective Teamwork
Planning & Monitoring Work
Class Size 6-32
Duration 30 minutes
Contents 30 x rubber numbered disks and 30m
boundary rope
Full facilitation notes and questions
Comments What appears as a moderately physical
challenge increasingly becomes clear to be
more about understanding how to use the
abilities and resources within the full team to
meet challenging targets and objectives.
Toolbox Webmaster®
Learning Focus Problem-Solving
Remote Team Working
Improving Task Efficiency
Effective Teamwork
Class Size 6-32
Duration 40-60 minutes plus review
Contents Facilitator Manual, Design plans
29 metal and rope components
Comments A complex, large group exercise in which
individuals must accept responsibility for
their own contribution, understand the
impact of their own behaviour and maintain
the discipline of working through an agreed
strategy.
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LEARNING SKILLS
Toolbox Challenging Assumptions
Learning Focus Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Challenging Conventional Thinking
Understanding Approaches to Change
Class Size 4-32
Duration 20-30 minutes plus review
Contents Facilitator Manual
4 x puzzle sets per pack
Comments An exploration of how to tackle a new
challenge, with emphasis on the need to use
past experience carefully and avoid making
assumptions. An opportunity to combine
creative thinking with resilience in learning
new skills.
Toolbox The Learning Game
Learning Focus Learning Motivation & Approaches to
Learning
Learning Skills, Conditions & Obstacles
Class Size 1-32
Duration 20 - 30 minutes plus review
Contents 162 cards in five key groups
60 coloured counters
Facilitator Guide
Comments A useful aid for anyone who wants to gain
insight into how their own learning process
works, and who or what plays an important
role. Also suitable for professionals working
with, or responsible for, the learning process
of others i.e. teachers, trainers, coaches,
social workers and managers.
Toolbox Voyage Mapping - Individual Version
Learning Focus Reviewing Experience
Future Planning/Action Planning
Risk Assessment / Planning Change
Class Size Individual version 1-30
Duration Optional: Minimum 45 minutes
Contents Individual re-useable, laminated
map versions available with sets of 15 x
cartoon images, future and past ‘keys’
Comments A visual metaphor of a journey generates
discussion of past and future challenges.
A versatile resource with applications in
personal coaching and team development.
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LEARNING MODULES
Complete Education Pack
Seven independent but linked modules used for developing capable and effective learners by understanding and
strengthening learning skills
Learning & Change
This module focuses on helping individuals to believe that they can learn - thinking
about ways that they’ve learned in the past and ways that they can continue to learn
and change in the future. It contains practical activities that small teams (up to 16
people) can practice together, supported by a teacher, and everything required to
complete a 2 hour work module on this Changing & Learning dimension is
included.
Physical materials include 1 x set of Optical Illusion Images, 1 x 4 pack of
Challenging Assumptions puzzles, 1 x set of Juggling Balls, 1 x set of Keypunch
activity , facilitator notes.
Meaning Making
This module focuses on helping individuals to build skills in linking different
concepts together and seeing the ‘bigger picture’. It identifies specific and relevant
actions, behaviours and strategies used by those who have developed this aspect
of learning power. In a world where accumulating information and facts is easy,
meaning making, and making connections to productively use acquired information
is a key skill.
Physical materials include 2 x sets of Innovation Images, 2 x sets of Workstations
and facilitator notes.
Critical Curiosity
This module focuses on helping individuals to investigate and understand the
power of questions, and the advantages in having an interest in why things
happen and how things work . It contains practical activities that small teams (up to
16 people) can practice together, supported by a teacher, and everything required
to complete a 2 hour work module on this Critical Curiosity dimension is included.
Physical materials include 1 x set of Counters, 1 x set of SPARK-IT cards, 6 x Mystery
Objects, 1 x Coin sorter brief, facilitator notes.
Creativity
This module focuses on helping individuals to build their skills in being creative, to
explore the value of playfulness and a willingness to experiment and to take risks. It
contains practical activities that small teams (up to 16 people) can practice together,
supported by a teacher, and everything required to complete a 2 hour work module
on this Creativity dimension is included.
Physical materials include 1 x Seeing the Point puzzle set, 1 x set of Dialoogle cards,
and facilitator notes.
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LEARNING MODULES Resilience This module focuses on helping individuals to understand the concept of resilience in terms of learning power, and building their capacity to persevere when the learning process becomes difficult, or indeed to recognise that there is an alternative way to proceed. It contains practical activities that small teams (up to 16 people) can practice together, supported by a teacher, and everything required to complete a 2 hour work module on this Resilience dimension is included. Physical materials include 1 x set of Images of Resilience, 2 x Sets of Straw Bridges, 9x Juggling Balls, facilitator notes Learning Preferences This module focuses on helping individuals to build awareness of their own learning strategies and the need to approach learning in a structured and considered way. It contains practical activities that small teams (up to 16 people) can practice together, supported by a teacher, and everything required to complete a 2 hour work module on this Strategic Awareness dimension is included. Physical materials include 1x set of Simmetrics , 1 x set of Voyage Mapping (Individual Coaching Version) and facilitator notes. Learning Support Relationships This module focuses on helping individuals to become more effective at building and using strong relationships that help them in learning successfully. It contains practical activities that small teams (up to 16 people) can practice together, supported by a teacher, and everything required to complete a 2 hour work module on this Learning Relationships dimension is included. Physical materials include 4 x sets of Broken Square activity and facilitator notes.
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A CATALOGUE OF ACTIVITY BASED RESOURCES
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